Watch: California High Court Tells San Jose Medical Marijuana Dispensary to Pay Up
Submitted by Marijuana News on Thu, 07/28/2016 - 08:39
The State of California’s Sixth Appellate District Court ruled Friday that the medical marijuana dispensary Medimarts in San Jose, must pay the city $767,058 in taxes and late fees. Medimarts has not paid the Marijuana Business Tax (MBT) to the City of San Jose since May of 2012, according to the court filing. Dave Armstrong, president and founding member of Medimarts, says that paying the tax would acknowledge they are violating federal law by selling marijuana. “My next step is do whatever it takes to maintain my caregiver status for the 10,000 plus, active medical marijuana patients that we serve,” Armstrong says. He argues that he does not technically sell marijuana. Medimarts is a collective, and according to Armstrong, members or co-owners do not buy marijuana. He says they make an equitable contribution to grow the marijuana for themselves. The court’s decision comes more than year after an...
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